Hi SM, I'm writing in my role as the Internet Society's CEO. On Sat, Aug 17, 2019 at 12:41:32PM -0700, S Moonesamy wrote: > There is the following in Section 3: "Apart from the roles described below, > the IETF and ISOC acknowledge that ISOC has no influence whatsoever on the > technical content of Internet Standards". The statement about "no > influence" is implausible given that last paragraph in Section 4 about the > participation of ISOC employees as, for example, document editors. Your interpretation appears to elide the qualifying "Apart from the roles…" part of the sentence in asserting implausibility. I'm unsure what problem you see in the last ¶ of section 4, which explicitly notes that ISOC employees participate in the process as individuals. The Internet Society also has a staff policy about this, some remarks about which I posted a while ago [1]. > Does that mean that their employer will not file any IPR disclosure > if the case arises? I don't understand this question in the context. But I should think it obvious that, in the unlikely event the Internet Society started taking out patents on software inventions we suddenly started making, Internet Society staff would be obliged to disclose such things in exactly the same way everyone else around the IETF does. Since formally none of the participants in the IETF is acting as a representative of anyone else (including their employers), ISOC employees are no different. The purpose of the bit in section 3 in the draft under discussion is to make that point explicitly. > Is that aligned with the "highest ethical standards" stated in > Section 7 of the contract [1] signed by the IETF LLC? Is _what_ so aligned? I'm also unsure of the relevance of the services agreement to which you refer, since it has nothing to do with the technical content of Internet standards. > What is the relationship between RFC 2031 and this draft? According to the header, RFC 2031 will be obsoleted by this draft. [1] https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/ietf/Ugu6O_5tCnNzTUmVzIuhNFKPzbE Best regards, A -- Andrew Sullivan President & CEO, Internet Society sullivan@xxxxxxxx +1 517 885 3587
